KaylaJ

JadenKale wrote:Could you, at the very least, go on about how in Egypt cats were treated as gods? I'd find that rather fitting for you, Kayla.

since cats were domesticated by egyptians cause they could kill the mice and snakes, i hope adders are not common to northern africa! of course if i'm a cute ramby cat, i may in trouble anyway, esp since i'll probably have poor eyesight...

sugareeali

mrwednesday

KaylaJ wrote:since cats were domesticated by egyptians cause they could kill the mice and snakes, i hope adders are not common to northern africa! of course if i'm a cute ramby cat, i may in trouble anyway, esp since i'll probably have poor eyesight...

If you were a ramy cat you'd have one blank expression and you wouldn't be able to walk because of your grossly distorted anatomy and stumpy, pawless legs.

Josephus

I just think this would be a hysterical shirt to have. No National Park names, so I ought to be safe, right?
If you've every gone off the beaten path, taken a walk on the wild side, wondered what the bear saw when he went over the mountain, then this shirt is for you. Or, if you've just had your butt kicked one too many times, cast a vote this way!

MadHammer

imtheotherguy

Josephus wrote:Well, as I told Woot on submission, the name of the mountain is Rushmore, a name much older than the national memorial, which is Mount Rushmore National Memorial. My shirt only says "Rushmore". If they decide that is close enough, I can't stop them from rejecting it, but I think my design is in line with what they intended.

I think you might be able to get this a Honorable Mention if you resub with out Rushmore

cloverpatch

This has been done. I have a shirt with the back side of Rushmore on it (haha, even same color shirt). While this IS an original design, it is definitely not an original idea. Sorry to break it to you.

Discoshrew

sylph01

Josephus wrote:I have to agree with you. I was certainly wrong about it- I shamefacedly concede the point and will add an edit to my comment in a minute. I must confess that I didn't look anything up- I read a story long ago about the importation of sequoias to London, and the difficulty they had in keeping them alive at first- I think they ended up building charcoal ovens that they buried underground below the trees so that they could keep the ground warm enough in the winter. This would have been at that big Conservatory- must have been while Queen Victoria was alive. It might have even been fiction, now that I think about it.

There are also three types of Sequoias... I hadn't heard of sequioa gigantis growing well anywhere else!

sylph01

The accompanying article describes very successful plantings in Italy, and, indeed, most of western and southern Europe, including much of Great Britain as well as this planting in Scotland.

Excellent research! Having spent most of my life on the north coast and mountains of California, I'm partial... and happy to see that others have been able to meet the requirements of the tree to grow them elsewhere.

tenieldjo

KaylaJ wrote:its time like this i wish i had a psychic's degree to talk about schodinger and his kittens, a nursing degree to ask about cat scans, or at least a bank to throw up banker cat, alas i have a history degree which means the closest i can get is calling you kittens but spelling it khitan

XD I'm not trying to be a smartass, I just think it's funny to think that all physicists are psychic. Comes with the territory.

HalfWheat

MEMANIA wrote:What exactly makes some shirts not copyrighted and others copyrighted? Is it the characters or what?

I mean, I'd imagine Dr. Who and Back to the Future are copyrighted, as well as TMNT, Super Mario, Yogi Bear, and a handful of other stuff that's been printed on woot shirts.

On Woot's part, it's a judgement call as to whether the item in question has enough parody that the copyright owners won't come calling. It might also be about how likely certain copyright owners are to sue over more trivial things. If one of them is known to be more aggressive in protecting the copyright, then it's wise to back off from annoying them. You don't have to lose a lawsuit for it to be expensive, so even if you're right about it being parody and you win the case, you've still lost a lot. I doubt the sales of a single tee shirt would cover much of a lawsuit.

Josephus

cloverpatch wrote:This has been done. I have a shirt with the back side of Rushmore on it (haha, even same color shirt). While this IS an original design, it is definitely not an original idea. Sorry to break it to you.

We looked diligently while there this summer to find a shirt like this and couldn't. Maybe there are shirts somewhat similar, I never saw one. I don't think mine is as similar to anything out there as more than a few previously printed woot designs are to other previously printed designs (cough, Aarghyle, cough, cough, paroxysm of coughing over the others).

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